Write It Out

Register for the Write It Out® Writing Retreat And Workshop August 1-August 9, 2023. Deadline to make your classic room reservations at Villa Le Barone, Panzano, Italy is March 13, 2023. Tuition that includes workshop, private consultations and evening salons is due June 1, 2023. See www.writeitout.com or contact Ronni Miller at RMillerWIO@gmail.com for more information.

The Write It Out® four week virtual Expressive Writing Workshop on Zoom begins Thursday, November 4 from 2-4 PM EST. Contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register.

On Going Expressive Writing Workshops will continue on Zoom Thursday afternoons through 2021 from 2-4 PM EST. These are 4 week terms given from my home studio in Sarasota, FL. Anyone who wants to express their story in any genre is welcome to attend. Registration is required. Please contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register and inquire about tuition.

Between Lovers, Ronni Miller’s newest book a collection of fiction short stories and ten minute plays has just been published and is on Amazon! Don’t miss these autobiographical fiction stories by an award winning author that capture life with humor and insight.

Loneliness has increased in this time of COVID 19. One way to beat it is to expressi yourself in writing. Write for yourself. There is no editor. The process of purging feelings, memories and experiences with written words is important. It can be just a list of words, a stream of consciousness and it doesn’t have to make sense. Within a few minutes of writing time you are transported to another time and place in your life. In those minutes your feelings are freed. A burden is lifted. Relaxation occurs. You’ve spoken to yourself. You are our own audience.

Isolate sounds prick at my mind. A bird calls to another outside my window.
Silence inside envelops me. My fingers itch for the keys. They wait for a thought to course through my veins to fingertips. I hear the clicking and watch the screen. I’ve begun something.

We went to sleep and woke up one day to a new world. A world of social distancing because of the world-wide pandemic caused by COVID-19 the Coronavirus that has overtaken us in just days.

There has been an epidemic of loneliness for several years and now with the new edicts of social distancing, loneliness affects a great deal more of the population.

In these times when forced isolation provides reams of unaccustomed time it can be put to use by writing. Partly as self-entertainment and partly to be shared with others through the phone or Internet or in some cases in person within the household.

Writing is one way to fend off this loneliness and stress due to uncertainties, loss of income, health and isolation from family and friends. Write about how it feels today. Write about past experiences good and bad and how feelings and emotions, decisions and outcomes impacted your life. The process can simply be writing in a journal or it can take the form of a letter, poem, play, short story, essay or even novel. Before long you have several pages, about pieces of events scattered through your life. These pieces can be placed in a three ring notebook, a box or file and also bound into a book.

One just gets started by doing. Putting one word down on a paper or on the screen and other words follow without thought.

For me, writing has been my companion. My soul mate who doesn’t fall asleep on me when I’m speaking or mention that I’ve told that story before. It supports my thoughts. It embraces my words. It gives me the opportunity to vent and in so doing understand more of a condition or situation.

In one room, in front of my laptop, I can travel backward in time to anywhere. There are no security checks or flight delays. Travel is instantaneous. My system can dwell on one spot, one action, one emotion for however long I please. I can transverse pink sand, cool to the souls of my feet in 90 degree temperature next to aquamarine water sliding up the shore. I can see him stand on the promontory camera in hand, sweat dampening his blond hair capped under a safari hat. What the camera did for us led to a novel that fed on itself.

In this new world we have been given a reprieve from frenetic-ness. Time is our own not dictated by others. We are finally in control of our own lives at least in the decisions about time. “There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens” Ecclesiastes 3.
We can choose to make this time useful for ourselves by documenting the situation for posterity through words about how we felt, observed, reacted.

Empty shelves in supermarkets. People lined up before it opens to hoard or to obtain only for the moment food and products once never so important like hand sanitizer and toilet paper.

We have time to “live life in radical amazement” a phrase coined by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to “get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal, everything is incredible, never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”

To record in word all that is happening, has happened and might happen is to expose a piece of oneself for posterity and leave a legacy.

Join us for a Virtual Expressive Writing Workshop on Zoom from Ronni’s Studio for a four week term beginning Wednesday, April 15th 2-4 PM. Tuition $95. Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 if interested.

Join us for our Expressive Writing Workshop: “Masks” every Wednesday in February 2-4 PM at Ronni’s Studio, Sarasota, FL.
Workshops begin Wednesday, February 5, 2020. Contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com or see www.writeitout.com for more details.

There is a correction in our SPUR newsletter under the heading Linda Odom Published. Linda is a flight attendant not stewardess. Words are important in today’s gender appropriate consciousness.

Join us October 21-October 29, 2020
at a special writing retreat at the historic Ville Le Barone, a four-star hotel in the Chianti region of Italy a short distance from Florence. Tuition of $950 includes workshop, private consultations and evening salons with Ronni. Registration begins January 6, 2020.See www.writeitout.com for more details or contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail or 941-359-3824

Hi,
The time has returned to express the stories that have impacted your lives. Join us around the table and share your prose or poetry as we begin a new year.

SCHOOL BELL’S RINGING
AT
RONNI’S PINEHURST STUDIO

(7316 Eleanor Circle Sarasota 34243)

September
Expressive Writing Workshop

Wednesday, September 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2019 2:00-4:00 PM

Tuition: $95 if paid in advance or at the first class or $25 for individual classes.

RSVP for a place around the table RMillerWIO@gmail.com or (office)941-359-3824.

There are still a few openings for the Tuscany Writing Workshop
October 16-24, 2019
See www.writeitout.com for more info.

See you soon.
Ronni

July Expressive Writing Workshop at Ronni’s Studio, Sarasota, FL Wednesdays July 3, 10, 17, 24 , 31, 2019 from 2-4 PM.
Write prose, poetry and theater pieces to express your story.
Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 to register.

The radio interview aired June 13, 2019 on WSLR 96.5 Sarasota, FL
Here is the link to the recording of the show on the radio station’s archive: https://archive.wslr.org/mp3/wslr_190613_180000gunsletters.mp3/

If the above link doesn’t work, here is the recording archived on our own website: wslr_interview.mp3

Listen to my interview “On Becoming an Author” on the WSLR 96.5 Betty & Friends Thursday June 13, 2019 archives. It will be available for two weeks.

There are still openings to register for the Tuscany writing retreat and workshop October 16-24, 2019. The deadline to register is June 22, 2019. Join me to celebrate Write It Out’s twenty-two years of facilitating workshops in Italy and many years at the Villa Le Barone in Panzano, Italy where the workshop is held. It has the comfort of a four star hotel and the graciousness of bygone years. A family owned villa since the Renaissance, its Tuscan cuisine and wines are authentic to the region and cooking classes are available as well. You will write surrounded by the sensory beauty of the hills and valleys of Chianti, the chestnut and olive trees and vines heavy with ripe grapes, the sounds of bels from the 10th C. church down the road and the smell of lavender and late blooming roses. See  “Tuscany” on www.writeitout.com or contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com for more information.

A five week Expressive Writing workshop will be held at Ronni’s Studio Pinehurst Village Sarasota, FL May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019 from 2-4 PM. All levels of writers welcome. Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register.

A brand new four week Expressive Writing Workshop will begin on April 3, 2019 2-4 PM at Ronni’s Studio, Sarasota, FL. It is for anyone impacted by life altering situation,s to express feelings, memories and experiences through journal writing, poetry, prose and theater pieces. Contact Ronni at RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 for more information.

Visit me at the VENICE BOOK FAIR Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00 AM-3:00 PM at Blalock Park 200 Turin St. across Nassau St from the library.  I’m in booth 46. You’ll have a chance to see my new book Domestic Shorts a collection of 18 fiction stories about love and relationships. See  www.writeitout.com for more on Domestic Shorts now available on Amazon.

Free writing workshop Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00 AM-12:30 PM at the Center for Arts & Humanity 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL. I’ll facilitate a mini-workshop.
of Write It Out® exercises. Join in the fun. Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boost-your-creativity-with-sarasota-pen-women-at-a-free-writing-workshop-tickets-51496118276?ref=eios&aff=eios